On Monday 30 July, United States President Donald Trump announced that he would like to meet the Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani at “any time” with “no preconditions.” At a brief news conference at the White House, Trump said he would meet with “anybody” since he “believes in meeting.” There is
In an action to raise awareness of environmental protection and to mark World Environment Day on the 5thof June, the UN has issued a report highlighting the grave environmental threat of plastic. The report, launched in New Delhi, acknowledged that some of the methods adopted by various countries have proved
According to media linked with the Assad regime, this past Monday, civilians and rebel fighters began to leave Douma, the largest town in the Eastern Ghouta suburb, and also the last stronghold of the rebel groups near Damascus. Local activists revealed that a deal, brokered by Russia, has been struck
A United Nations Security Council resolution to establish a month-long cease-fire in order to provide humanitarian aids in Eastern Ghouta was blocked on Friday by Russia. Representatives from Russia have rejected widespread reporting of mass civilian casualties in Syria. The Russian envoy to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, stated during a
In an interview with the TV station Yemen al-Youm on this Saturday, former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh indicated that he is ready for a “new page” in a relationship with the Saudi-led coalition if the latter stops fighting in his country. As he said, “I call upon the brothers
On last Friday, the Rawdah mosque in northern Sinai, Egypt, witnessed the worst terrorist attack on innocent civilians in modern Egyptian history. According to latest statistics, the bomb and gun attack killed at least 305 people, including 27 children. A further 128 people were wounded in this horrendous atrocity. The
A new study by the World Bank has found out that for West and Central Africa, annual benefit from ending child marriage could be as high as $60 billion. According to lead economist for the World Bank, Quentin Wodon, child marriage could lead to more children over the parents’ lifetime,
Recently, the WHO appointed Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador. The Director-General of the UN health agency, Tedros Ghebreyesus, asked Mugabe to help tackle non-communicable disease like heart attacks and asthma across Africa. However, this decision has attracted global criticism and outrage. Members of WHO have expressed confusion
This Friday, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate condemned the U.S. President Donald Trump for “igniting new conflict rather than reducing the risk of nuclear war.” The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) emerged as the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize, and it criticized Trump after he withheld
More funds and aid are needed as the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar intensifies, a new UN report warns. The report, which was published last Friday, focused on the mass exodus of innocent civilians fleeing Myanmar into the neighbouring country Bangladesh. Since recent weeks, more than half a million people have
On this Friday, in a last-minute compromise between Western powers and Arab countries, the UN has agreed to establish an investigation team to examine alleged human rights violations and war crimes committed amid the conflict in Yemen. The team, consisting of eminent experts, will also identify those who are responsible.
A televised speech by Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has drawn international attention this week. Suu Kyi refused to criticize Myanmar’s security forces, which is believed to have carried out brutal ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in the country. Facing a barrage of international criticism, what the Myanmar’s
According to a new UN report that has launched in Rome on Friday, the number of chronically hungry people in the world is increasing again. 815 million people were undernourished in 2016, which is 38 million more than 2015. The report also shows that lingering conflicts, climate change, and economic
Fatal ethnic fighting in the Central African Republic is likely to result in a much more serious conflict if no action is taken to disarm combatants and relieve tensions, warns a UN report on Friday. The report mentioned mass killing and rape by rebels in a “horrific surge” of violence
Tensions have escalated in Togo after two protesters were killed by security forces, warns Al Jazeera. The deadly protest happened in Sokode, a place 338 kilometres north of the country’s capital Lome. According to the Security Ministry, last Saturday, apart from the two deaths, 12 gendarmes were wounded in this
More than 250 people, including 62 children, were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between March and June of this year, according to a new UN report. The report is based on interviews with 96 refugees who fled Congo’s Kasai region into Angola. From their accounts, the UN
